Do masks really halve the risk of Covid? A note on the evidence
‘Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding’ as Willy Loman said in Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece An Inspector Calls.…
Biden is losing America
Plummeting polls are sending a clear message to the Biden administration, but the President is deaf, dumb and blind to…
Here’s to the risk takers
In the 1870s and 80s, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the engineering landmarks of the day.…
The forever ‘war on Christmas’
It seems to get earlier each year, doesn’t it? It’s not yet even December, and the Mail on Sunday has…
Vaccine mandates are as queer as a clockwork orange
What if I told you there was a way to end crime forever? That there was the possibility to eliminate…
Wokeness claims a museum
When will our intellectual life return to normal, where facts come together into conclusions? Today, in service to ideologies like…
Big tech, big target, good politics
Scott Morrison is going troll hunting. Well, there’s more in his announcement of new laws targeting social media and the…
Is Boris right to fear the Omicron variant?
Boris Johnson announced a new raft of coronavirus measures on Saturday, after two cases of the Omicron variant were detected…
Why are editors sharing a platform with Miqdaad Versi?
Next week, the Centre for Media Monitoring publishes its report on ‘British Media Coverage of Muslims and Islam 2018-2020’. Its…
China’s growing influence over the Commonwealth’s armies
On Monday in the city of Bridgetown, Prince Charles will be forced to witness the spectacle of Barbados officially becoming a…
What the BBC show trial of Michael Vaughan tells us
After dropping Michael Vaughan in punishment for what he said (or might not have said) many years ago, the BBC…
How we hope to hold people responsible for the hotel quarantine disaster: people, not just bureaucracies
In late September this year efforts bore fruit to require WorkSafe Victoria to prosecute government agencies and individuals over the…
Dan and Albo’s barbie: hard to swallow
While thousands of Victorians were marching on Parliament to protest Daniel Andrews’ pandemic legislation, the man himself was staging the…
The mystery of Downing Street’s cinema
As a former court room, the No. 9 Downing Street briefing hub has seen its fair share of drama –…
The curious case of Joe Gersh and his defence of Ita Buttrose
The repeated efforts of ABC Director Joe Gersh to defend his Chairperson, Ita Buttrose, are as laughable as they are…
The tyranny of Boris Johnson’s mask mandate
Today the government has said that for the next three weeks it will be mandatory to wear masks in shops…
Why a love child might help ‘Papa Zemmour’
It’s not often you find Eric Zemmour plastered across the front of Closer magazine. Brigitte Macron, Beyonce and Lady Gaga…
Oxford should not accept money that is tainted by fascism
Dons and students at Oxford have in recent years been deeply exercised about Cecil Rhodes, who died 120 years ago.…
Religious discrimination legislation? What next? ‘No jabber (in tongues), no job’?
People are right to be concerned that happy-clapper, sky fairy worshipping freaks will use the government’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill…
The Omicron variant: what we know so far
Will the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, be the black swan that pulls the world back —…
German euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers
Irony has been declared many times in this pandemic but now, from Covid-riddled Germany comes the final proof: you can’t…
Conservative populists
‘Disgusting right-wing nut-jobs’, ‘rebels’, ‘populist conservatives’ and of course ‘anti-vaxxers’. These are just some of the politer insults being hurled…
